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What are our Course Categories?


The course categories provide our learning landscape.

Each category is prefaced by “To …”:   Framed this way, with the most direct action verb that we could use, the list becomes a leadership and learning praxis model — not just a curriculum map.

It represents our cumulative experiences as, first and foremost, senior practitioners and our immersion in the theories and models of practice for learning and application.

The categories provide the foundation for our courses. Each builds on the aim and rationale for its category and is designed and delivered with direct relevance to the learning context; this context ranges from individual through teams, departments, organisations, and even networks.

The design is governed by our four levels of learning, each tailored to the context – bronze, silver, gold and platinum.

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BE - Your Authentic Self

Key Themes for Learning and Leading:

Identity, values, presence, ethics

Rationale:

Who you are as a leader shapes everything you do.

Intelligent Leadership Questions most strongly addressed

Why · Who · How (impact)

 

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Exploring WHO the leader is:


`Some example courses that can be designed and delivered to the right context

• Leadership Foundations
• Leadership Quomodo
• Values-Based & Ethical Leadership
• Selfless Leadership in Practice
• Leadership Presence & Credibility
• Reflective Leadership Practice

 

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UNDERSTAND — Systems, Sense-Making & Judgement

Key Themes for Learning and Leading:

Sense-Making, Systems & Judgement

Rationale:

Seeing the system clearly before acting within it

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Intelligent Leadership Questions most strongly addressed

What · Where · Why

 

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How leaders understand complexity


`Some example courses that can be designed and delivered to the right context

• Systems Thinking for Leaders
• Adaptive Leadership
• Strategic Sense-Making
• Cognitive Bias & Decision Quality
• Risk, Uncertainty & Trade-offs
• Strategic Foresight & Scenarios

 

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MOVE - Leading Change and Transformation

Key Themes for Learning and Leading:

Change, transformation, influence

Rationale:

Creating momentum when change is constant.

Intelligent Leadership Questions most strongly addressed

When · Why · How (impact)

 

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How leaders create movement:


`Some example courses that can be designed and delivered to the right context

• Leading Change: Beyond Kotter
• Organisational Culture & Power
• Sustaining Transformation
• Networked & Informal Change
• Change Fatigue & Adaptive Capacity

 

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ENGAGE — Influence, Negotiation & Relationships

Key Themes for Learning and Leading:

Negotiation, dialogue, relationships

Rationale:

Working with others to align interests, both common and differing..

Intelligent Leadership Questions most strongly addressed

Who · What · How (impact)

 

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How leaders work with others:


`Some example courses that can be designed and delivered to the right context

• Essential Negotiation Skills
• Advanced & High-Stakes Negotiation
• Difficult Conversations
• Conflict, Mediation & Resolution
• Stakeholder Engagement & Alignment
• Influence Without Authority

 

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